Lubbock police arrested two people late Monday in connection with the slaying of a 32-year-old man at a motel over the weekend in Southeast Lubbock.

Jake Johnson, 27, was booked early Tuesday morning into the Lubbock County Detention Center on a murder charge and a charge of tampering with evidence in connection with the Sunday killing of Gabriel Salazar.

Geneva Leal, 26, was booked on a charge of tampering with evidence.

Lubbock police investigators believe Johnson struck Salazar with a hard object, killing him, then tried to hide evidence, according to an arrest warrant.

Lubbock police responding to a call reporting a death about 9:40 a.m. Sunday at the Carriage House Inn found Salazar’s body in the parking lot. A responding officer reported a portion of Salazar’s skull was exposed above his left eye.

Security camera video from the motel in the 900 block of East Slaton Road showed a dark-colored pickup truck driving to the area where Salazar’s body was found. No other vehicles were seen entering that part of the parking lot.

Salazar’s mother told police she dropped off her son Friday at a duplex in the 6500 block of Avenue Q where a friend lived. She said she returned the next day to pick up her son but no one answered the door, the warrant states.

Police watched the duplex and saw a dark-colored pickup truck similar to the one seen in the video. An investigator saw Johnson leave the duplex and enter the vehicle, according to the warrant.

Johnson, who was arrested in the 1600 block of Avenue Q, told police he went to the duplex on Saturday to meet with another person. He said he and the other person left the duplex and returned to find a man suffering a severe head wound.

Johnson reportedly admitted to helping move the man, who was still alive, and taking him in his truck and dumping him in the motel’s parking lot. Johnson reportedly said he didn’t care if the man lived or died, the warrant states.

Leal, a duplex tenant, also told police Salazar was at her residence Saturday and said she saw he was shot, stabbed and struck with a baseball bat. She reportedly admitted to cleaning up blood in the residence.

Johnson’s bond is set at $150,000 for the murder charge and $50,000 for the tapering charge. Leal’s bond is set at $75,000, according to jail records.